Apple spent $ 525 million to acquire other companies in the last quarter

Investors often criticized Apple's unwillingness

 to spend a considerable sum accumulated in bank accounts . But in fact, a certain cash flow occurs . In particular, in the last quarter, Apple spent more than half a billion dollars to acquire other companies.

Apple filed a report to the Commission by the U.S. Securities their expenditures for the absorption of other companies in the last calendar quarter of 2013. Cupertino-based company has spent in this direction by $ 284 million more than the same period in 2012 . Total costs of the absorption in the fourth quarter reached $ 525 million

It is known for the three acquisitions. For the development of Siri was acquired company Cue - developer eponymous voice assistant. This transaction cost $ 35 million, about $ 360 million spent on the purchase of Apple Israeli company PrimeSense, which is responsible for the development of technologies which form the basis for Kinect. Now the three-dimensional pattern recognition technology owned Apple.

Finally, $ 200 million was spent on the purchase of analytical Topsy, which has some experience in the field of analysis of social services. Astute readers may have noticed that the total cost of the three companies has exceeded the specified $ 525 million beginning This suggests that these media data on the cost of a company are inaccurate .

Overall, the total value of acquisitions Apple in the last quarter but not a world record , but came close to a record in 2010 , when the company spent more than $ 600 million for the same period. In Cupertino company usually close after absorption by appending the most valuable employees to their teams , but the technology used in future projects most Apple. Until now, this strategy has remained unchanged.

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